robobunny wrote:
And with minor modifications, this is also a valid shell script, for those on UNIX:

Weeellllll ... {G} ... with MAJOR modifications and wrapping it in a shell function wrapper, so it is available at every login w/o regard to PATH location, this idea becomes: 

 # (ba)sh function wrapper for Perl code. "perltest" is admittedly NOT
+ a good name ;-)
perltest () 
{ 
    perl -e'
    my$modn = my$mod = "'$1'";
    $mod =~s@::@/@g; $mod.=q[.pm];
    die ("module $modn not installed.\n",$@) if
       ! eval {require qq[$mod];};
    my $modv = defined ${$modn.q[::VERSION]} ?
       ${$modn.q[::VERSION]} : q{[version undefined]};
    my$numtyp= (2 > $modv =~tr/.//) ? "%s" : "% 6d";
    printf "  %-*s $numtyp in %s\n",
      length($modn) > 30 ? 5+length($modn) : 15+length($modn),
      $modn, $modv, $INC{$mod};
    ';
    return 0
}

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I use this so often, sometimes several times a day, that the extra elaboration has proven well-worth it to me.

    Soren A / somian / perlspinr / Intrepid
P.S. Don't forget: I am expecting all the people the people who say I am posting to Perlmonks for the XP to automatically downvote this posting w/o explanation, thanks. 

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In reply to Re [1]: Which version is this module? by Intrepid
in thread Which version is this module? by bart

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